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The Irish Citizen Army: My Grandads Army

Posted on July 19, 2026 by Kevin Hester — Leave a comment

My maternal grandfather Tommy Byrne was a Quartermaster in the Irish Citizen Army. He was caught with weapons and whilst banged up in a Free State jail he began a hunger strike that lasted 23 days, before he was pressured…

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Kevin Hester

Kevin Hester is currently living on Rakino Island, a small island in the Hauraki Gulf near Auckland, New Zealand, monitoring the unravelling of the biosphere and volunteering at the Rakino Island Nursery is currently developing a proposal to create a marine reserve near by. The Island has no grid tied electricity or reticulated water.  I catch my own water from the roof and generate my electricity from the ample solar radiation on the island.

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